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he said ending the war in iraq was tragic. i think it was the right thing to do. i said we'd end that war, we did. i said we'd go after al qaeda. we did. i said we'd take out bin laden. we did. >> you know, issues of war and foreign policy are not all that partisan all the time. republican jon huntsman's campaign didn't go anywhere this year and neither did ron paul's this year, but both of these candidates were respected for and got support for running on the issue of afghanistan, for saying what a lot of republicans think, and a lot of independents think, and a lot of democrats think. which is that we ought to end the afghanistan war and leave now, not in 2014. you don't win a medal for bravery for espousing a political position like that right now. it's a pretty popular position. but mitt romney is no john huntsman. he's no ron paul. he's afraid to say the word "afghanistan" even when it counts, let alone to visit afghanistan. let alone to make any arguments whatsoever that do not flow from the george w. bush foreign policy brain trust that he has held over who
he said ending the war in iraq was tragic. i think it was the right thing to do. i said we'd end that war, we did. i said we'd go after al qaeda. we did. i said we'd take out bin laden. we did. >> you know, issues of war and foreign policy are not all that partisan all the time. republican jon huntsman's campaign didn't go anywhere this year and neither did ron paul's this year, but both of these candidates were respected for and got support for running on the issue of afghanistan, for...
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you're going to hear about ending the war in iraq. he's going to say that thing about every american getting a fair shot and every american doing our fair share and everybody playing by the same rules. i mean, if you are a fan, a fan enough to go to a speech like this, you likely know what you are going to hear in broad strokes. but today -- today on the campaign trail, there was this moment in ohio where the crowd totally thought that president obama was going somewhere that he was not actually going. they started to audibly react as if he was talking about something that they pretty clearly really wanted him to talk about. but he was not going where they thought he was. listen. >> now, there was one person that governor romney's convention last week who wasn't entirely on script. no, no. >> no, no. the crowd is sort of half booing and half starting to applaud in a little excitement that president obama is about to talk about the off-script guy from last week, right? he's going to talk about this clint eastwood thing from the republi
you're going to hear about ending the war in iraq. he's going to say that thing about every american getting a fair shot and every american doing our fair share and everybody playing by the same rules. i mean, if you are a fan, a fan enough to go to a speech like this, you likely know what you are going to hear in broad strokes. but today -- today on the campaign trail, there was this moment in ohio where the crowd totally thought that president obama was going somewhere that he was not...
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what d you see as the lessons iraq? >> i tnk the lesf iraq are very clear that you cannot have a failed strategy. thanks to this great general david pa ttr,hey are succeeding and winning in iraq. >> whether we should have gone into the war in the first place. six years ago i stood up and opposed this war. we hadn't finished the job in afghanistan. we hadn't caught bin laden. we hadn't put al qaeda to rest. and as aconsnc i thought that it was going to be a distractio now, senator mccain and president bush had a very different judgment. >> so that was this date, 40 days out from the election in '0and 40 days out from the election in '04. in '04 the campaign was consume e of our wars. 40 days out from the election in '08, in the midst of the financial meltdown the campaign was consumed with both of the wars. now it's 2012 and we're 40 days out from the election this year and we are not quite as consumed with that issue, but we are still in one of ose wars. suur out is not a mutual decision by the two candidates. i mean, t
what d you see as the lessons iraq? >> i tnk the lesf iraq are very clear that you cannot have a failed strategy. thanks to this great general david pa ttr,hey are succeeding and winning in iraq. >> whether we should have gone into the war in the first place. six years ago i stood up and opposed this war. we hadn't finished the job in afghanistan. we hadn't caught bin laden. we hadn't put al qaeda to rest. and as aconsnc i thought that it was going to be a distractio now, senator...
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>> i think the lessons of iraq are very clear that you cannot have a failed strategy. thanks to this great general david pa tray yous, they are succeeding and winning in iraq. >> whether we should have gone in the war in the first place. six years o ood a opposed this war. we hadn't finished the job in afghanistan. we hadn't caught bin laden. we hadn't put al qaeda to rest. and as a consequence, i thought that it was going to be a distractio no senator mccain and president bush had a very different judgment. >> so that was this date, 40 days out from the election in '08 and 40 days out from the election in '04. in '04 the campaign was consumed with the debate over aleast one of our wars. 40 days out from the election in '08, in e mit ofhe fiialt tamn was consumed with both of the wars. now it's 2012 and we're 40 days out from the election this year and we are n quite as consumed with that issue, but we are still in one of those wars. and not being consumed with that issue turns out is not a mutua cision by e twcaat i mean, the democratic side, president obama, talks ab
>> i think the lessons of iraq are very clear that you cannot have a failed strategy. thanks to this great general david pa tray yous, they are succeeding and winning in iraq. >> whether we should have gone in the war in the first place. six years o ood a opposed this war. we hadn't finished the job in afghanistan. we hadn't caught bin laden. we hadn't put al qaeda to rest. and as a consequence, i thought that it was going to be a distractio no senator mccain and president bush had...
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they tried to get bill clinton to start the iraq war. they wanted george bush to start the war before 9/11 happened. then when 9/11 happened, they said we have to go now, don't we? the project for a new american century really existed and the people who ran it did not get run out of washington and forced into a line of work they would be better suited for like for example, coloring. they are briefing the republican vice presidential nominee on what to do about foreign policy. in 2012. the republican side never retired the g.w. bush policy team. no need to come up with a new idea or two. they don't seem to really care about foreign policy in terms of the mitt romney campaign. they just don't want to be asked about it. because the republican party is essentially forfeited on this issue, because on this issue there are not two plausible sides fighting it out in the election, there's the democrats and sort of a right wing fee pooe nut gallery that pops up. foreign policy and the wars are being handled in our political system differently than
they tried to get bill clinton to start the iraq war. they wanted george bush to start the war before 9/11 happened. then when 9/11 happened, they said we have to go now, don't we? the project for a new american century really existed and the people who ran it did not get run out of washington and forced into a line of work they would be better suited for like for example, coloring. they are briefing the republican vice presidential nominee on what to do about foreign policy. in 2012. the...
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-led invasion of iraq, march 2003. it was also the month when it was ordered that the flag-draped couffins of american service members killed abroad could not be photographed when those coffins got back to the united states. that change in policy under george w. bush was a source of anger and controversy. it is why coffins were sometimes used in anti-iraq war protests to visually represent those real caskets of americans killed in the war that the bush administration would not allow the country to see. the bush administration banned the media from showing those dignified transfer ceremonies as the invasion of iraq started in 2003. and they kept the policy in place throughout george w. bush's time in office. as the country waged two of the longest wars in our history. it was not until the new president replaced george w. bush that the ban was rescinded. on thursday, february 26th, 2009, just five weeks after president barack obama was inaugurated, the defense department lifted the ban and one week after the ban was lift
-led invasion of iraq, march 2003. it was also the month when it was ordered that the flag-draped couffins of american service members killed abroad could not be photographed when those coffins got back to the united states. that change in policy under george w. bush was a source of anger and controversy. it is why coffins were sometimes used in anti-iraq war protests to visually represent those real caskets of americans killed in the war that the bush administration would not allow the country...
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because when we won in '06, one of the big issues was ending the war in iraq. and we went to see t president and we said, we're here, how do we end the war, and he said, at not going to happen. ane id us have two-thirds vote, you're at the mercy of. but let me say, this election, because of what we have been through, i want to make this one point. people are saying, the republicans had the nerve to say, are you better off than you were four years ago. and many pplhave- the arrus. and part of it is that still rem informants of what happened during the bush years. but just a week ago, in my office, the speaker's office, and the presence of the republican and democratic leader inhe h -adin house and senate, the chairman of the fed said to us after secretary bernanke described a terrible meltdown of our financial institution, the chrman of the fed said, if we do not act immediately, we will not have an economy by monday. this is the place that h tak us to. this is the place that president obama and house democrats tried to take us the from. this is the place that t
because when we won in '06, one of the big issues was ending the war in iraq. and we went to see t president and we said, we're here, how do we end the war, and he said, at not going to happen. ane id us have two-thirds vote, you're at the mercy of. but let me say, this election, because of what we have been through, i want to make this one point. people are saying, the republicans had the nerve to say, are you better off than you were four years ago. and many pplhave- the arrus. and part of it...
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made clear that he would keep his commitment to end the war in iraq. and he made clear that the war in afghanistan would grow. at the end of his first year in office, president obama announced a surge of tens of thousands of troops into afghanistan, putting more american there than george w. bush ever did. the president insisted that the surge into afghanistan would not last forever. he said the surge in troop numbers had previously over by roughly now, the end of september, 2012. now a little ahead of schedule, before the end of the month, the pentagon has announced that the surge into afghanistan is over. there had been as many as 100,000 americans on the ground in afghanistan. now it is down to 68,000 which, frankly, is still a huge number. especially when you consider how little political attention those 68,000 americans get. our ongoing war in afghanistan is not much of an issue in this all-consuming presidential race. mostly because i think one of the two sides just doesn't want to talk about it at all. the war, mr. romney said, did not come up i
made clear that he would keep his commitment to end the war in iraq. and he made clear that the war in afghanistan would grow. at the end of his first year in office, president obama announced a surge of tens of thousands of troops into afghanistan, putting more american there than george w. bush ever did. the president insisted that the surge into afghanistan would not last forever. he said the surge in troop numbers had previously over by roughly now, the end of september, 2012. now a little...
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photos from an american run prison in iraq called abu ghraib. they showed the prisoners being mistreated horribly and bizarrely. sexual humiliation, obvious physical abuse, sexual assault. prisoners being menaced by dogs, it was just obscene and medieval. and it was americans who were doing it. ultimately, 11 soldiers were charged and convicted. the commanding general in charge of prisons in iraq was demoted. but that was it. donald rumsfeld stayed, bush got re-elected. the war went on for another seven years before we got a new president who ended it. as much as we may have just decided to move on from all that and consign it to the way we think of the bush era, which is over, there has been all these years one element of abu ghraib that could not really just be over. and it was this. these are army reservists, we have blurred both faces, but army reservists on the top of the screen, army reservists were prosecuted posing with a dead man. the same man appears a few dichlt times in the photo dossier from abu ghraib. he got described as the icema
photos from an american run prison in iraq called abu ghraib. they showed the prisoners being mistreated horribly and bizarrely. sexual humiliation, obvious physical abuse, sexual assault. prisoners being menaced by dogs, it was just obscene and medieval. and it was americans who were doing it. ultimately, 11 soldiers were charged and convicted. the commanding general in charge of prisons in iraq was demoted. but that was it. donald rumsfeld stayed, bush got re-elected. the war went on for...
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to go over to an unnecessary war in iraq. we spent $3 trillion in iraq, lost over 4,000 men and women, tens of thousands have ptsd or traumatic brain injury, and then these knuckle heads who send us into war don't want to take care of these veterans when they come home? i mean, that's the cost of war. we need to make sure we give them the opportunity. we need to expand things like the g.i. bill and to do it just so president obama or democrats and republicans can't say we have an accomplishment every once in a while is beyond me. i can't get over the fact that these men in the senate turned their back on veterans who are in desperate need right now. it's just unamerican. >> former u.s. congressman army combat veteran patrick murphy. >> you know it is a powerful interview when i have knuckle heads is written on my script. >>> despite john mccain's objections, the sky did not fall. a reason to be cheerful coming up. i describe myself as a mother, a writer and a performer. i'm also a survivor of ovarian and uterine cancers. i ev
to go over to an unnecessary war in iraq. we spent $3 trillion in iraq, lost over 4,000 men and women, tens of thousands have ptsd or traumatic brain injury, and then these knuckle heads who send us into war don't want to take care of these veterans when they come home? i mean, that's the cost of war. we need to make sure we give them the opportunity. we need to expand things like the g.i. bill and to do it just so president obama or democrats and republicans can't say we have an accomplishment...
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they do realize that's what got us into this trouble both overseas with the war in iraq and also with the economy. and they are not going for it anymore. the republic nlonger believes that the way to help middle class and low-incoilis give more money to the rich. so i thought that mitt romney would pivot to the middle. he decided not to do that. >> i feel like the country puicans people in the mile and on the left want a republican party that's essentially giving a good fight. so we can have a big hashed out discussion about how to fix our problems. i'll be talkingore about that later in the show about something that's been left out of the campaign. but i think even the left is rooting for the repubcan party to get its act ther. ecaue don't want one party. we want two viable parties. >> we want to benefit from somebody who is right winning a real debate. we're a long way off. thank you for being here. >>> fda voters, i have something to tell you about your particular role in the election this year. in order to vote this year, you're going to have to read a slim novel of terrifying pow
they do realize that's what got us into this trouble both overseas with the war in iraq and also with the economy. and they are not going for it anymore. the republic nlonger believes that the way to help middle class and low-incoilis give more money to the rich. so i thought that mitt romney would pivot to the middle. he decided not to do that. >> i feel like the country puicans people in the mile and on the left want a republican party that's essentially giving a good fight. so we can...
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he quickly made clear he would end the war in iraq and he made clear that the war in afghanistan would grow. he announced a surge of tens of thousands of troops into afghanistan putting more americans there than george w. bush ever did. but the president insisted that would not last forever. he said that had to be over by roughly now. by the end of september, 2012. so now, a little ahead of schedule, the pentagon has announced that the surge into afghanistan is over. there have been as many as 100,000 americans in afghanistan it is now down to 68 thousand which frankly is still a huge number. especially when you consider how little political attention those 68,000 americans get. the war in afghanistan isn't an issue mostly because of the one of the two sides did not want to talk about it. it didn't come up in his speech because it wasn't just a laundry list of issues, it was for things that he thinks are important. as in not the war. so our war is not a major issue in our presidential race and that is a convenient reason to never really talk about it. there's one thing i want to point
he quickly made clear he would end the war in iraq and he made clear that the war in afghanistan would grow. he announced a surge of tens of thousands of troops into afghanistan putting more americans there than george w. bush ever did. but the president insisted that would not last forever. he said that had to be over by roughly now. by the end of september, 2012. so now, a little ahead of schedule, the pentagon has announced that the surge into afghanistan is over. there have been as many as...